The taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland said Friday it will segregate about 38 billion pounds ($62 billion) of soured investments to clean up its balance sheet in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

NEWS: The Washington Post Co. posted lower net income in the July-September quarter, though revenue inched higher. The company closed the sale of most of its newspaper business to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Oct. 1.

MORE WORRIES: The European Central Bank has a new headache: an unexpected drop in inflation. The recent slide is another sign of how weak the economic recovery is in the 17 countries that use the euro.

HACK ATTACK: A purported member of the Internet hacking group Anonymous breached a blog linked to Singapore's leading newspaper. The hacker claimed a Straits Times journalist published a "very misleading" blog post about a threat purportedly issued by Anonymous against Singapore's government to protest contentious online licensing regulations.